Heart failure and even death has occurred among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new study.
Six people across the four Nordic countries died with myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, within 90 days of hospital admission after being vaccinated with a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, researchers reported. Twenty-two vaccinated people were diagnosed with heart failure within 90 days of hospital admission with myocarditis.
Myocarditis is caused by the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, experts in the United States and elsewhere have said. Death is a known outcome. Many people diagnosed with the condition are hospitalized.
Many of the heart failure or death diagnoses happened in those 40 and older. Eight occurred among 12- to 39-year-olds….